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<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nGraduating Student:<\/strong> Maiyan Linane (W 22)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\nI started my process paper by reflecting upon my coming of age at the time of the internet and started to ask questions regarding experiences that happened to myself and my friends online. Why language and law had not been provided to us yet? <\/em><\/p>\nIn order to have a foundational approach to my questions, I explored artists Cecile B. Evans<\/a> and Hito Steyerl<\/a>. I did research regarding cyber-feminism<\/a> and looked to the work of Melissa Febos<\/a>. I continued a series of investigations by asking: when do our bodies not become our own? And how can one show the omnipresence of something invisible?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\nHow did VCFA change your approach to thinking about your studio practice and your community at home? <\/strong><\/p>\nIt changed everything. VCFA has definitely impacted how I see research as vital in my studio practice. In terms of my community, I have critically examined what is considered \u201cnormal.\u201d Also, how I look at myself and why I have not completely divested from structures that I know are not good for me or others.<\/p>\n
I have learned to ask myself how I continue to operate in these structures and where I can rethink and relearn new ways of navigating them. As for my community, I engaged my immediate political surroundings and use strategy to engage them in my art practice, as well as bringing the exhibition to them, installing it at the basement of the bar where I work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div>\nWho were your Artist-Mentors?<\/strong><\/p>\nYukiyo Kawano<\/a><\/p>\nShaw Osha<\/a><\/p>\nMira Schor<\/a><\/p>\nParastoo Anoushapour<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>Maiyan Linane, 2022<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat was on your play list during your time at VCFA?<\/strong><\/p>\nKat Hasty – Where the Wildflowers Lay<\/a><\/p>\nColby Acuff – If I Were the Devil<\/a><\/p>\nCardi B – Back it up<\/a><\/p>\nSerpentwithfeet- Redemption<\/a><\/p>\nBrown Bird – Wrong Black Mare<\/a><\/p>\nLeikeli47 – Girlblunt<\/a><\/p>\nBikini Kill – Carnival<\/a><\/p>\nL7 – Pretend We\u2019re Dead<\/a><\/p>\nNoname – Diddy Bop<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>Maiyan Linane, 2022<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nWho are your favorite protagonists in fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\nSherlock Holmes<\/a><\/p>\nElizabeth Bennet<\/a><\/p>\nRin Tin Tin<\/a><\/p>\nSmurfette<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/p>\nWhat, or who, should you like to be \u2013 if not yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\nI would be a Marabunta<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<\/div>\nWhat is your favorite bird?<\/strong><\/p>\n
getting to know the graduates<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nGraduating Student:<\/strong> Maiyan Linane (W 22)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n I started my process paper by reflecting upon my coming of age at the time of the internet and started to ask questions regarding experiences that happened to myself and my friends online. Why language and law had not been provided to us yet? <\/em><\/p>\n In order to have a foundational approach to my questions, I explored artists Cecile B. Evans<\/a> and Hito Steyerl<\/a>. I did research regarding cyber-feminism<\/a> and looked to the work of Melissa Febos<\/a>. I continued a series of investigations by asking: when do our bodies not become our own? And how can one show the omnipresence of something invisible?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n How did VCFA change your approach to thinking about your studio practice and your community at home? <\/strong><\/p>\n It changed everything. VCFA has definitely impacted how I see research as vital in my studio practice. In terms of my community, I have critically examined what is considered \u201cnormal.\u201d Also, how I look at myself and why I have not completely divested from structures that I know are not good for me or others.<\/p>\n I have learned to ask myself how I continue to operate in these structures and where I can rethink and relearn new ways of navigating them. As for my community, I engaged my immediate political surroundings and use strategy to engage them in my art practice, as well as bringing the exhibition to them, installing it at the basement of the bar where I work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who were your Artist-Mentors?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yukiyo Kawano<\/a><\/p>\n Shaw Osha<\/a><\/p>\n Mira Schor<\/a><\/p>\n Parastoo Anoushapour<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n What was on your play list during your time at VCFA?<\/strong><\/p>\n Kat Hasty – Where the Wildflowers Lay<\/a><\/p>\n Colby Acuff – If I Were the Devil<\/a><\/p>\n Cardi B – Back it up<\/a><\/p>\n Serpentwithfeet- Redemption<\/a><\/p>\n Brown Bird – Wrong Black Mare<\/a><\/p>\n Leikeli47 – Girlblunt<\/a><\/p>\n Bikini Kill – Carnival<\/a><\/p>\n L7 – Pretend We\u2019re Dead<\/a><\/p>\n Noname – Diddy Bop<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n Who are your favorite protagonists in fiction?<\/strong><\/p>\n Sherlock Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n Elizabeth Bennet<\/a><\/p>\n Rin Tin Tin<\/a><\/p>\n Smurfette<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div> What, or who, should you like to be \u2013 if not yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n I would be a Marabunta<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n What is your favorite bird?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>Maiyan Linane, 2022<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>Maiyan Linane, 2022<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
<\/div>Miayan Linane, 2022<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n